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  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private organizations and scores of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

bit of a crazy cycle.” But it’s also a bit of an understandable cycle. Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels of uncertainty and the longer time frames that it requires. But, if you’re a sophisticated space... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

advertisers use in-house rather than independent advertising agencies and examines inter-industry variation in such internalization. Contrary to the widely held impression that use of an in-house advertising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

regional influences were more important, supporting sociological theories about the importance of visibility in corporate green strategies. It identifies major commonalities between corporate strategies in the German and American chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

“good”—economic research indicates that people’s behavior often reflects such motives (Fehr and Schmidt 2006; Abeler, Becker, and Falk 2014). Perhaps this should not come as a surprise to economists, given that Adam Smith prominently highlighted such motivations in The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

  Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

abruptly in the Great Recession and has not come back. There are a number of theories about too much regulation, for example, or too much student debt, but it is a problem because small businesses provide a path to the American dream.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

to win. Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2211700   Working PapersDelegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing Authors:McElheran, Kristina Abstract Recent contributions to a growing theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

paper conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

and by the effects of their private governance mechanisms. These organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Business School Case 709-025  In 1987, President Ronald Reagan established the President's Commission on Privatization to identify federal government functions that could be shifted to the private sector. One agency that the Commission... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

you elaborate a little on why this is important? A: Frankly, this always the case regardless of whether they operate at the TOP or BOP of the pyramid, except that at the top, there are enough agencies protecting consumers, and consumers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

differences in motives and activities of not-for-profit organizations, and the need to develop additional theories to address those differences in explaining interorganizational arrangements between them. The Structural Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne